STUDENT SEMINAR
Friday, April 5, 2019 – 10 am to 12 pm
room 108N
Please register at: https://archive.munkschool.utoronto.ca/ceres/event/27446/
Dr. Hila Zahavi (Ph.D., Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) is the Director of the Simone Veil Research Centre for Contemporary European Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Dr. Zahavi leads the European Commission funded “Near-EU Jean Monnet Research Network.” She also serves as a member of the core committee of COST action “CA17119 – EU Foreign Policy Facing New Realities: Perceptions, Contestation, Communication and Relations.” Recently Dr. Zahavi co-edited a Special Issue of the European Journal of Higher Education titled “Twenty Years of the Bologna Process – Reflecting on its Global Strategy from the Perspective of Motivations and External Responses” (2019). Her Ph.D. research (completed in August 2018) dealt with higher education as a tool in foreign policy. Her research interests focus on higher education policies from a political perspective, the political dimensions of the Union’s foreign and security policy, and Israeli-European Union relations. Since 2015, Dr. Zahavi teaches different courses on the European integration process in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
